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#40 - The Rite
The biggest sin that this film commits is that it’s inherently a superficial and wholly cliche thriller. With a good 30 minutes chopped of, this may have worked, but it’s too long, too distilled, and frankly, we’ve seen this exact film done better, a hundred times over. Simply put, it’s a film that isn’t only superficially long in the tooth narrative wise, but its...
CineBoobs: Someone Snuck Up On, Floored Peter... →
cineboobs:
how many times can one possibly be snuck up on and floored before one is declared proper brain damaged?
peter travers, folks …illustrious film critic for rolling stone magazine:
“it sneaks up and floors you.” –the fighter “this spellbinder will sneak up and floor you. it’s that…
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#39 - Life In A Day
Brilliant documentary. Stunning cinematic experiment. This film is many things, but the main of which is a genuinely moving look at life, telling everyone watching to take each fleeting moment as if it were your last. More on this film in a while. Will be posting a review later this weekend.
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#38 - Rage (Rabia)
Produced by Guillermo del Toro, Rage (Rabia) is quite an interesting little beast. I’m still trying to parse my thoughts out on this weird mix of del Toro style brutality and realism, and Brian De Palma like voyeurism, but at this point, I can tell you that I dug the hell out of it. Review should hit tomorrow.
Film opens in NY on Friday.
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#37 - Le Gai Savoir
Jean-Luc Godard is my favorite filmmaker of all time. That said, he’s not without his absolute messes. For every Breathless and A Woman Is A Woman, apparently he gives us a Le Gai Savoir, which may be the biggest pile of slop I’ve seen from the French filmmaking God.
Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud and Juliet Berto, the film is best described as a series of boisterous conversations...
#36 - Mad Bastards
Not a bad film, but it thinks it’s far more interesting than it truly is. Not good. Not bad. Don’t know if that’s much of a compliment however. Review coming.
Bane
raphmike:
Bane, a man who spent his whole life in prison, was a test subject for a drug that gave him increased strength, although he also became addicted to that drug. As opposed to some of the more classic villains that have populated the Batman movies, Bane is a more recent creation (1993) and is best known for a story where he broke Batman’s back, leaving the hero a paraplegic.
HE BROKE...
#35 - Kes
One of the more shocking finds I’ve made on Netflix Watch Instant, the outlet has apparently added the forthcoming Criterion release, Ken Loach’s Kes.
So I had to see it, right? Well, I’m actually really glad I did, because for a company that has its bread and butter in the world of coming of age stories, this is one that definitely stands above a lot of them.
Kes follows a...
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#34 - Stranger Things
Plays Slamdance this year. REALLY compelling character study. More haunting than one would imagine given the premise. Not perfect, but its roughness makes it all the more worth checking out. Review, again, on its way.
#33 - Cronos
I’m a huge director “guy.” I love me some directors.
While many filmmakers are able to expand upon their style within their subsequent films, it is often their debuts that say the most in either a narrative sense, or stylistically. Nothing says Darren Aronofsky quite like Pi for example.
And then there are debuts that exist, but are rarely seen. That’s where Cronos...
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#32 - Kaboom
Latest film from director Gregg Araki. Hits on the 28th. Review coming soon. Hint: I adore this thing.
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#31 - These Amazing Shadows
Comes from Sundance Selects. Review coming soon.
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#30 - Uncle Kent
Plays Sundance this year. It’s your typical Sundance film, with a lot more going on. Grows on me as I sit here. Review coming soon.
16th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards Winners List «... →
oldfilmsflicker:
BEST PICTURE
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges - ”True Grit”
Robert Duvall - ”Get Low”
Jesse Eisenberg - ”The Social Network”
Colin Firth - ”The King’s Speech”
James Franco - ”127 Hours”
Ryan Gosling - ”Blue Valentine”
BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening...
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#29 - Bhopali
Not going to say much (the film doesn’t premiere until Slamdance later this month) but it’s the year’s first real must see film. Haunting. Informative. Just all around great. This is the type of film that proves that Slamdance may be a more interesting festival than it’s big brother.
Review will be coming soon.
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The Green Hornet →
My review of The Green Hornet.
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#28 - The Green Hornet
The reason why I won’t be going insane this January. Despite the trio of flaws that I have with the film, I had a blast. Review will be posted Thursday/Friday on DVDSnapshot.com. Will update this. Just a hint, I really, really, really dug it. More in a while.
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#27 - The King's Speech
Sometimes, there is a film that just leaves you speechless.
The King’s Speech is exactly that type of film.
Tom Hooper’s 2010 masterpiece, the film stars Colin Firth as King George VI of Britain, and his story from stutterer to King. The film follows his rise to the throne, along with his relationship with a speech therapist who helps him to find his voice in a trying time.
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#26 - The Double Life Of Veronique (RE-WATCH)
Simply put, one of the best films of the last 25 years. Even better on a second watch. Don’t miss this when it is re-released on Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection.
(Sorry for the length of review, just got out of The King’s Speech, so attempting to crank out a longer review of that film for you all)
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#23-25 (RE-WATCHES) Fantasia, Fantasia 2000,...
Got the chance to dig through a few films that I’ve already seen, and I must say, they all are definitely as good as I remember them. Here are a few short thoughts that I have on each of them:
Fantasia - Looks stunning on Blu-ray. The new 4-disc Disney set (that the fiancee got me for X-mas this holiday season) is a must own for any fan. Haven’t gotten all the way through it, but...
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#22 - Shock Corridor
Just dug through the Criterion Blu-ray. Looks absolutely fantastic. A tiny bit short on supplements, but it’s still a great release. Must own simply for the artwork. Amazing.
Review forthcoming over at GordonAndTheWhale.com.
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#21 - Season Of The Witch
That slutty girl from high school. Cheap looking, vapid, and wholly uninteresting. Review forthcoming. Think you can tell I didn’t like it though.
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#20 - A Somewhat Gentle Man
First 2011 new release I’ve seen is Hans Petter Moland’s A Somewhat Gentle Man. Stars Stellan Skarsgard. Opens in LA on January 28. Review forthcoming.
Hint: I liked it. Flawed, but I liked it.
Stay tuned for the film’s full review. Coming in a few weeks over at DVDsnapshot.com.
Seeing Season Of The Witch tomorrow…not all that excited.
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#19 - Overlord
As a fan of The Criterion Collection, I can’t help but try my damndest to see as many of their releases as humanly possible.
One of the films that the collection has so correctly placed as part of their catalog of DVD releases is the 1975 film, Stuart Cooper’s Overloard.
Followinga young soldier named Tom from the time he is in training to his “final” time in battle, Overlord is Cooper’s...
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#19 - Overlord
As a fan of The Criterion Collection, I can’t help but try my damndest to see as many of their releases as humanly possible.
One of the films that the collection has so correctly placed as part of their catalog of DVD releases is the 1975 film, Stuart Cooper’s Overloard.
Followinga young soldier named Tom from the time he is in training to his “final” time in battle, Overlord is Cooper’s...
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GATW Podcast Ep. 36: The Best of the Best →
Episode 36 of the GordonAndTheWhale Podcast. Your’s truly is a co-host. We talk our top 10 films of 2010. Listen to this shit if you already don’t. You will be a better person for it.
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#18 - The Man From Planet X
There is nothing quite like sitting down for some 1950s B-movie science fiction.
That very fact is why I decided to toss on the Edgar Ulmer film, 1951’s The Man From Planet X. And honestly, I’m a bit upset that I did. 70 minutes I’ll sadly never get back.
The film, from famed director of The Black Cat Ulmer, stars Robert Clarke, Margaret Field and Raymond Bond as a group who discover an alien...
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#18 - The Man From Planet X
There is nothing quite like sitting down for some 1950s B-movie science fiction.
That very fact is why I decided to toss on the Edgar Ulmer film, 1951’s The Man From Planet X. And honestly, I’m a bit upset that I did. 70 minutes I’ll sadly never get back.
The film, from famed director of The Black Cat Ulmer, stars Robert Clarke, Margaret Field and Raymond Bond as a group who discover an alien...
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#17 - American Grindhouse
With 2011 still in the year’s infancy stage, I’m still attempting to catch up with a few films I missed during the last calendar year, and in the honor of 2010 being a documentary heavy year, I caught up with one of the more underseen documentaries, the Elijah Drenner film, American Grindhouse.
Looking at the world of the American Exploitation film, from its early days, to where it resides today,...
#16 - Alice
A friend of mine, OldFilmsFlicker, has been kind of addicted to Woody Allen features as of late, and in honor of that recent Woody addiction, I decided to check out an Allen film I’ve always been meaning to see, his 1990 feature, Alice.
A sly re-imagining of the Alice In Wonderland narrative (as well as Allen’s own loose remake of Fellini’s Juliet Of The Spirits), Alice...
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#15 - Lupin The Third: The Castle Of Cagliostro
In honor of his 70th birthday, I had to see a film from the legendary animation icon, Hayao Miyazaki.
However, while I adore the film’s I’ve seen from his canon, that’s just it, I’ve seen damn near his entire canon. From a film like Nausicaa to his latest film, Ponyo, his canon is one that I’m respectively versed in. That said, save for his short films, there has always been one film from his...
#14 - I Confess
Now this is the type of Hitchcock film I want to see.
Following up Young And Innocent is my 14th film of the year, Hitchcock’s 1953 film, I Confess.
Starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter (and features the second performance I’ve seen this year from the great Karl Malden after Where The Sidewalk Ends), the film follows a Catholic priest who is suspected of a murder. Refusing to answer...
#14 - I Confess
Now this is the type of Hitchcock film I want to see.
Following up Young And Innocent is my 14th film of the year, Hitchcock’s 1953 film, I Confess.
Starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter (and features the second performance I’ve seen this year from the great Karl Malden after Where The Sidewalk Ends), the film follows a Catholic priest who is suspected of a murder. Refusing to answer...
#13 - Young And Innocent (aka The Girl Was Young)
Within the great canon of one Alfred Hitchcock, there are various films that have seemed to go unseen by many, think Jamaica Inn or Shadow of a Doubt. One of these very films is the 13th film of the year for this writer, the 1937 thriller Young And Innocent. Known as The Girl Was Young when it hit stateside in its release, the film stars Derrick de Marney and Nova Pilbeam, and follows a man on...